Linda Susan Boreman (January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002), better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, became famous after starring in the 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat. She later became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement. Image File history File links Linda Lovelace promo shot for the film Linda Lovelace for President (1975). ... For other uses, see Birthday (disambiguation). ... is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. ... For other uses, see Death (disambiguation), Dead (disambiguation), or Death (band). ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Stature redirects here. ... A foot (plural: feet; symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... This is a list of ethnic groups. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Alias. ... is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... A stage name, also called a screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, comedians, musicians, djs, clowns, and professional wrestlers. ... Deep Throat is an American pornographic movie released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano and starring Linda Lovelace (the pseudonym of Linda Susan Boreman). ... A sign outside an Adult store. ...

Deep Throat was notable for beginning a brief fad of porn chic; it was also the inspiration for Bob Woodward's name of his secret Watergate source, W. Mark Felt. Boreman later stated that she regretted her pornographic career and was coerced into pornography by her then-husband, Chuck Traynor. The term porn chic was first used in the early 1970s to describe the wave of pornographic movies like Behind the Green Door, Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, and Score that appeared in mainstream moviehouses for the first time. ... Bob Woodward signs his book State of Denial after a talk in March 2007. ... Watergate redirects here. ... William Mark Felt, Sr. ... Chuck Traynor (died July 22, 2002) was an American pornographer. ...

Although she later became an advocate against pornography, Boreman is still famous for her depictions of deep throat fellatio. While she continued to use the Lovelace name in books and for other commercial purposes, she stated that she generally preferred to be called Linda Boreman. Porn redirects here. ... This article is about the sexual act. ... Fellatio is oral sex performed upon the male human penis. ...

Biography

Childhood and teenage years

Boreman was born in The Bronx, New York City,^[1] the daughter of a policeman and a woman she claimed was strict. Her parents were Roman Catholic and Boreman attended Catholic schools, including St. John the Baptist in Yonkers, New York, and Maria Regina High School in Hartsdale, New York. In school, she was nicknamed "Miss Holy Holy" because she kept her dates at a safe distance. When Boreman was 16, the family moved to Florida.^[2] In her autobiography "Ordeal" (1980), she stated that she gave birth to a son when she was 20 years old in 1969, and that her mother put him up for adoption. Boreman said she believed that the child was being put in foster care until she was ready to care for him, and was heartbroken when she learned she would never see him again. Boreman moved to New York to start a new life in 1970. While there, she was involved in a violent car crash forcing her to undergo a blood transfusion. She moved back to Florida to recover.^[3] For other uses, see The Bronx (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Founded in 1957, Maria Regina High School is an Archdiocesan Catholic high school for girls, located in Hartsdale, New York. ... Hartsdale is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). ...

Pornography career

While in Florida, recovering at her parents' place, Boreman became involved with Chuck Traynor. According to Boreman, Traynor was a violent and controlling man. Boreman said he forced her to move to New York, where he became her manager, pimp, and husband. Chuck Traynor (died July 22, 2002) was an American pornographer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Boreman was soon the star in a number of hardcore "stag" short features, including a bestiality film in 1971 called Dog Fucker or Dogarama. She later denied doing this, only to have several of the 8 mm "loops" become available to prove otherwise.^[4][5] X-rated, X certificate, X classification or similar terms are labels for movies implying strong adult content, typically pornography or violence. ... Look up Bestiality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In 1972, Boreman starred in Deep Throat, perhaps the most financially successful pornographic movie in history. In Deep Throat all her pubic hair was shaved off and she engaged in anal sex — neither was common in pornographic films of the early-1970s. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area, the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region. ... Roman men having anal sex. ...

After the success of Deep Throat Boreman appeared in only two subsequent films, including an R-rated sequel to Deep Throat entitled Deep Throat Part II which flopped (she maintained in her book Ordeal that her later porn films used leftover footage from Deep Throat). She also appeared in Playboy, Bachelor, and Esquire between 1973 and 1974. Boreman attempted to break into stage and mainstream films but found it difficult to overcome the stigma of her pornographic career. For other uses, see Playboy (disambiguation). ... August 2005 issue of Esquire Esquire is a mens magazine by the Hearst Corporation. ...

In January 1974, Boreman was arrested for possession of cocaine and amphetamines. Also that year, Boreman published two pro-pornography biographies.^{[citation needed]} In her later suit to divorce Traynor, she claimed that Traynor had forced her into pornography at gunpoint and that in Deep Throat itself, bruises from his beatings can be seen on her legs. Traynor would go on to marry and guide the career of Marilyn Chambers, another major porn star. Boreman claimed in her 1980 autobiography Ordeal that the couple's relationship was plagued by violence, rape, forced prostitution and private pornography. Some of the assertions made in her book have been challenged, but others have been verified by witnesses. Marilyn Chambers was Chuck Traynor's protégé after Boreman, and Traynor himself told Vanity Fair magazine (Marilyn Chambers' interview, with Chambers on the cover) that he thought nothing of slapping his woman if she said something he did not like. Linda stated that: Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Amphetamine is a synthetic drug originally developed (and still used) as an appetite suppressant. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Whore redirects here. ... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ...

When in response to his suggestions I let him know I would not become involved in prostitution in any way and told him I intended to leave, [Traynor] beat me up physically and the constant mental abuse began. I literally became a prisoner, I was not allowed out his sight, not even to use the bathroom, where he watched me through a hole in the door. He slept on top of me at night, he listened to my telephone calls with a .45 automatic eight shot pointed at me. I was beaten physically and suffered mental abuse each and every day thereafter. He undermined my ties with other people and forced me to marry him on advice from his lawyer. My initiation into prostitution was a gang rape by five men, arranged by Mr. Traynor. It was the turning point in my life. He threatened to shoot me with the pistol if I didn't go through with it. I had never experienced anal sex before and it ripped me apart. They treated me like an inflatable plastic doll, picking me up and moving me here and there. They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me, they were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I have never been so frightened and disgraced and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage. I engaged in sex acts for pornography against my will to avoid being killed...The lives of my family were threatened.

[This quotation is copied from Catharine A. MacKinnon, Are Women Human (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA 2006).

On the second commentator's track of the DVD of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, "Deep Throat 2" co-star Andrea True said that Chuck Traynor was a sadist and was disliked by the Deep Throat 2 cast. Similarly, a Deep Throat staff member who roomed next door to Boreman and Traynor during the filming of Deep Throat said that Traynor beat Boreman viciously after hours and sexually tortured her into obeying him in public. Promotional poster for Inside Deep Throat Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 documentary about the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat and its effects on American society. ... Andrea True Andrea True, (born July 26, 1943 in Nashville, Tennessee), is a former porn film star who was also a disco era singer. ...

In the book The Other Hollywood, by Legs McNeil, witnesses, including Gerard Damiano, the film's director, confirm that Traynor beat Boreman behind closed doors, but they also question her credibility. Adult film actress Gloria Leonard is quoted as saying about Boreman, "This was a woman who never took responsibility for her own [...] choices - but instead blamed everything that happened to her in her life on porn." Co-Founder and writer of Punk Magazine, Legs McNeil was also a features editor at Spin magazine and editor in chief of Nerve. ... Gloria Leonard (jewish born August 28, 1940 in The Bronx, New York) is an American former pornographic actress who later became a magazine publisher. ...

Eric Danville, a journalist who has covered the porn industry for nearly 20 years and who wrote The Complete Linda Lovelace in 2001, said Boreman never changed her version of events that had occurred 30 years earlier with Traynor. When Danville pitched his book proposal to Boreman, he wrote that she was overcome with emotion and saddened that he had uncovered the bestiality film, which she had initially denied making and later maintained she had been forced to star in at gunpoint. In The Other Hollywood, Eric Edwards, Boreman's co-star in the bestiality films, disputes this claim.

Boreman maintained that she received no money for appearing in Deep Throat, and that the $1,250 for her appearance was taken by Traynor. In 1979 Boreman retained Victor Yannacone, a controversial attorney more frequently associated with environmental lawsuits, to sue for a portion of the several hundred million dollars the film had earned. The suit was dismissed without trial by the Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola, New York and was never appealed.

In 1974, Boreman married Larry Marchiano and they had two children, Dominic in 1977 and Lindsey in 1980. As quoted in The Other Hollywood, Boreman painted an unflattering portrait of Marchiano, claiming that he drank to excess, verbally abused her children, and was violent with her. The couple divorced in 1996.

Family and friends reaction

Boreman's immediate family was said to have been outraged that she was involved in porn. But her sister, Barbara Boreman, suggested in one of Boreman's biographies that the family later forgave and supported her.

Anti-pornography activism

With the publication of Ordeal in 1980, Boreman joined the feminist anti-pornography movement At a press conference announcing Ordeal, she leveled many accusations against Traynor in public for the first time. She was joined by supporters Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem, and members of Women Against Pornography. She spoke out against pornography, stating that she had been abused and coerced. She spoke before feminist groups, at colleges, and before government hearings on pornography. Feminists redirects here. ... A sign outside an Adult store. ... Andrea Dworkin speaking to a federal commission on pornography in New York in January 1986 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women. ... Catherine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October 1946) is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist. ... Gloria Steinem at news conference, Womens Action Alliance, January 12, 1972 Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist icon, journalist and womens rights advocate. ... Women Against Pornography (WAP) was a radical feminist activist group based out of New York City and an influential force in the anti-pornography movement of the late 1970s and 1980s. ...

There was controversy over her allegations, and her objections to the pornography industry as a whole. Pornographer and writer Hart Williams coined the term “Linda Syndrome” to refer to women who leave pornography and repudiate their past career by condemning the industry. Linda Syndrome is a phrase used largely within the pornography community to describe adult film stars who seek acceptance in society by repudiating their past career. ...

In 1986, Boreman published Out of Bondage, another memoir focusing on her life after 1974. She testified before the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in New York City, stating that “When you see the movie Deep Throat, you are watching me being raped. It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time.” Following Boreman's testimony for the Meese Commission, Boreman gave lectures on college campuses and elsewhere, decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices in the pornography industry. The final report of the Attorney Generals Commission on Pornography (sometimes called The Meese Report for Attorney General Edwin Meese) is the result of a comprehensive investigation into pornography ordered by President Ronald Reagan. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Categories: Stub | Pornography ...

In The Other Hollywood, Boreman said she felt "used" by the anti-pornography movement. "Between Andrea Dworkin and Kitty MacKinnon, they've written so many books, and they mention my name and all that, but financially they've never helped me out. [...] They made a few bucks off me, just like everybody else."

Later career and death

Boreman contracted hepatitis from the blood transfusion in 1970 as a result of the car accident. In 1987, this required her to undergo a liver transplant.^[6] In 1996, Boreman divorced Larry Marchiano. In 2000, she was featured on the E! Entertainment Network's E! True Hollywood Story. In 2001, Boreman did a pictorial, as Linda Lovelace, for the magazine Leg Show. She contended that she did not object to this because "there's nothing wrong with looking sexy as long as it's done with taste." Subsequently, Hustler named her the "Asshole of the Month" for March 2001. Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) implies injury to liver characterised by presence of inflammatory cells in the liver tissue. ... E!: Entertainment Television is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. ... E! True Hollywood Story is a TV documentary series on the E! Entertainment Television cable and DBS channel that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and well-known public figures. ... Leg Show is an adult magazine published in the United States which specializes in photographs of womens legs. ... For other uses, see Hustler (disambiguation). ...

On April 3, 2002, Boreman lost control of her car, which rolled twice. She suffered massive trauma and internal injuries. On April 22, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado, aged 53. Her ex-husband, Larry Marchiano, and their two adult children Dominic and Lindsay were at the hospital when she died. She is interred at Parker Cemetery in Parker, Colorado. is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... In medicine, a trauma patient has suffered serious and life-threatening physical injury resulting in secondary complications such as shock, respiratory failure and death. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Life support, in the medical field, refers to a set of therapies for preserving a patients life when essential body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain life unaided. ... Denver redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ...

Despite the fact that Deep Throat was possibly the most profitable pornographic film ever made, Lovelace died poor. Boreman stated that Traynor took the $1250 she was paid to appear in the Deep Throat. The film is said to have cost $25,000 to make. Some sources estimate the film made between $100 million and $600 million worldwide.^{[dubious – discuss]}

After-death

Boreman was the subject of a 2005 documentary, Inside Deep Throat. A film about her life, called Lovelace, starring Courtney Love, was said to be in production in 2005.^[7] However, it appears that the production was never finalized. Promotional poster for Inside Deep Throat Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 documentary about the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat and its effects on American society. ... Courtney Love[1] (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician. ...

In September 2007, MTV News reported that Anna Faris was rushing to get a feature on Linda Lovelace in production before the Screen Writers Guild strike. Entitled Inferno, Faris claimed that she and first-time director Matthew Wilder were beginning production on the movie, with Faris playing Lovelace.^[8] MTV News is the news division of MTV, the first and most popular music television network in the U.S., as well as some of MTVs related channels around the world. ... Anna Kay Faris (born November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is an American actress, best known for her leading role of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films. ... The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries. ... Matthew Wilder (born Matthew Weiner on January 24, 1953 in New York City) is an American musician best known for his 1983 hit Break My Stride. ...

Partial filmography

• Deep Throat (1972)
• The Confessions of Linda Lovelace (1974)
• The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974) uncredited guest
• Linda Lovelace for President (1975)
• Deep Throat Part II (1974) as Nurse Lovelace
• Linda Lovelace: The E! True Hollywood Story (2000)
• Inside Deep Throat (2005) archive footage

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Books

Boreman has been the subject of five authorized biographies:

• Inside Linda Lovelace (1974) ISBN 0-902826-11-5
• The Intimate Diary of Linda Lovelace (1974) ISBN 0-523-00394-3
• Ordeal (1980) ISBN 0-517-42791-5
• Out of Bondage (1986) ISBN 0-425-10650-0
• The Complete Linda Lovelace (2001) ISBN 0-9705502-0-0

Other books:

• Jack Stevenson (ed): Fleshpot - Cinema's Sexual Myth Makers & Taboo Breakers (Headpress, England 2000): Features an interview with her.
• Nicolas Barbano: Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner (Rosinante, Denmark 1999) ISBN 87-7357-961-0: Features a chapter on her.

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External links

• The Complete Linda Lovelace. (Archived at Wayback Machine, February 2, 2006.)
• Linda Lovelace (1949–2002), Arlindo-Correia.com. – Collection of Linda Lovelace obituaries and other articles.
• "Linda Lovelace", Lukeisback.com.
• "Linda Lovelace", Rotten.com.
• Linda Lovelace Memorial at Find A Grave